Diese Reihe taucht tief in die Feinheiten sozialer und politischer Institutionen ein und untersucht, wie sie Muster individueller Interaktionen prägen und wie sie sich wiederum aus diesen Interaktionen entwickeln. Sie konzentriert sich auf die normativen Aspekte dieser Beziehungen und bietet eine multidisziplinäre und interdisziplinäre Perspektive auf eine breite Palette von Institutionen. Leser können tiefgründige Analysen erwarten, die disziplinäre Grenzen überschreiten und untersuchen, wie unsere Gesellschaften durch die von uns selbst geschaffenen Strukturen geformt werden.
In this book, Bo Rothstein examines 'social traps' where distrust prevents cooperation, despite mutual benefits. He explores how social capital and trust can be fostered through universal political institutions and policies promoting equality. Rothstein introduces collective memory theory to propose how these institutions can be created.
Focusing on democratic innovations globally, this book explores various approaches and their implications for enhancing democratic theory and practice. It highlights successful examples and offers insights that aim to inform future developments in democratic governance. Through this examination, the work seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of how democracy can evolve and adapt in contemporary society.
'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement across the spectrum of political action, from towns and villages to nation states, and from local networks to transnational, even global systems. Written by a team of the world's leading deliberative theorists, Deliberative Systems explains the principles of this new approach, which seeks ways of ensuring that a division of deliberative labour in a system nonetheless meets both deliberative and democratic norms. Rather than simply elaborating the theory, the contributors examine the problems of implementation in a real world of competing norms, competing institutions and competing powerful interests. This pioneering book will inspire an exciting new phase of deliberative research, both theoretical and empirical.